How to make pottery

"How to Make Pottery" by Mary White is a handbook that provides everything from the best clays and tools to the different ways to make pottery using your own hands or a pottery wheel. The book is geared toward people with no experience that want to learn pottery, focusing on being creative and learning technical skills. The beginning of the book gives you the basics, with explanations of the types of clay and tools. The book also explains how to get the clay ready and how to shape it. White explains how important it is to know about the different types of clays, like how bendy they are and how hot they need to be to fire them, while showing the most important tools for the craft.